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Show S. P. to Refund Fares J of Livestock Drovers Cattlemen generally will be inter-ested inter-ested in the announcement by the Southern Pacific company that ir has I reinstated the rule cancelled by ihe I United States railroad administration regarding the refunding of fates of care-takers sent out to return with shipments of livestock. This practice Is local to the Pacific Coast lines. Middle western and eastern east-ern lines do not make these refunds, but allow free transportation only on caretakers accompanying livestock and returning to points of origin. In the middle west and east livestock Is shipped to union stockyards and market mar-ket points and there sold, the care-takers care-takers returning to shipping points In the absence of union stockyards on ; the pacific Coast, except at Portland. 1 it is necessary for dealers to send , buyers into the country and take de- livery cither on the spot of at the I railroad point of shipment and then ' return as caretakers with the llve-1 llve-1 stock. The refund of fares by the Southern South-ern Paclfll therefore on caretakers sent out after livestock via Pacific Coast lines places dealers on the Pacific Pa-cific Coast In a position to buy stor I in competition with the movement to middle-western and eastern territory |